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Topic: flashdrive with the nexus 7 (Read 1558 times)

I am looking at how to use a usb flash drive with an unrooted Nexus 7. Am I correct in understanding that all that is needed is an otg cable and some software like stickmount?

Does this just allow me to store data on the flashdrive or can I use something like a2sd to run apps from the drive? On my rooted android 2.3.4 phone a2sd puts symbolic links that trick the phone to think the apps are in the internal memory.

Back when Android 2.2 or Froyo was released apps2sd was added to Android but as of 4.1 (I believe), Google have removed the feature in favour of a storage system shared between apps and multimedia.There was an app, I forget its name but since 4.2's emulated storage layout it's broken and no longer supported.

Back when Android 2.2 or Froyo was released apps2sd was added to Android but as of 4.1 (I believe), Google have removed the feature in favour of a storage system shared between apps and multimedia.There was an app, I forget its name but since 4.2's emulated storage layout it's broken and no longer supported.

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JJ is referring to the Directory Bind App, which let users spoof the data directories used by apps, and actually stored the data on a USB Flash Drive. Directory Bind is not supported, and became useless with Android 4.2's new directory structure. See my thread on the 64GB Question.

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